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NORTH CAROLINA Despite a shrinking lead just before the vote, Elizabeth Dole held on to beat Clinton chief of staff Erskine Bowles...
...amazed at who was working these races," says a G.O.P. veteran. "Usually they have some 25-year-old kid." Shortly after Rove learned that the polls were tightening in the Senate race in North Carolina, the Republican Senatorial Committee sent an additional $1.5 million to help Elizabeth Dole. "They had the resources ready, and they didn't hesitate to pull the trigger," says consultant Ed Gillespie, one of Rove's expert surrogates who handled that race...
...Senators next year will include Mark Pryor of Arkansas, whose father David held the same seat for 18 years, and John Sununu of New Hampshire, son and namesake of the former Governor and White House chief of staff for Bush I. Also Liddy Dole of North Carolina, wife of the former Senate majority leader and presidential candidate. Mary Landrieu of Louisiana, whose father was mayor of New Orleans and a member of Jimmy Carter's Cabinet, is favored in a runoff. In the Senate they'll all join Evan Bayh of Indiana and Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island, both sons...
Karl Rove, a former historian and now political guru to President Bush, is writing a short history of his office, which over the years housed, among others, Kennedy's political operative, Larry O'Brien; Eisenhower and Nixon's troubleshooter, Bryce Harlow; and Cabinet Secretary Elizabeth Dole. "The office has the only full-length vanity mirror in the West Wing," says Rove. He initially assumed it had been installed for Hillary Rodham Clinton, the first First Lady to have a West Wing office. (She insists it was there when she moved...
...congressional campaign chair--ducked out to get back to their war rooms. But when Lott tried to leave, Bush pulled him into a sitting room outfitted with more TV monitors and jangling phones. As the results of close Senate races came in, Bush placed congratulatory calls to Elizabeth Dole in North Carolina and John Sununu in New Hampshire, handed the phone to Lott, then dialed another number. "He clearly was having fun," Lott says. After the fifth call, Lott tried to excuse himself, telling Bush he needed to go back to his office. "No, no. Stay," Bush said...